GameTech: Hideo killed the video game star

Some developers become washed up as they get older. They lose their creative spark. Not Hideo Kojima, though. He has taken the concept of ‘washed up’ and made an entire game out of it.

GameTech: Hideo killed the video game star

Some developers become washed up as they get older. They lose their creative spark. Not Hideo Kojima, though. He has taken the concept of ‘washed up’ and made an entire game out of it.

Death Stranding takes its title from the concept of beach stranding, where sea-life somehow washes up on shore and is left to die. In the case of Death Stranding, however, the shore is the afterlife and the creatures washing up are altogether more creepy.

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